BIOSKETCH -- Jeffrey C. Nekola
Biology Department, Castetter Hall
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131
Telephone: 505-277-6270; Fax:
505-277-0304
Email: jnekola@unm.edu
A. PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION
1994: Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
in Ecology
1987: B.A. (suma cum laude) Coe College,
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in Biology
B. APPOINTMENTS
2011- Editor for Pulmonate Gastropods, Zootaxa
2009- Associate Editor, Journal of Molluscan Studies
2005- Adjunct Associate Professor, University of New
Mexico
2000-2004 Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin,
Green Bay
1994-2000 Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin,
Green Bay
C. SIGNIFICANT PUBLICATIONS
Nekola, J.C. In press. Biological Refugia. In: MacLeod, N., D.J. Archibald & P. Levin (eds), Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Extinction. Gale Publishing, Farmington Hills, Michigan.
Nekola, J.C., C.D. Allen, J.H. Brown, J.R. Burger, A.D. Davidson, T.S. Fristoe, M.J. Hamilton, S.T. Hammond, A. Kodric-Brown, N. Mercado-Silva & J.G. Okie. In press. The Malthusian-Darwinian dynamic and the trajectory of civilization. Trends in Ecology and Evolution.
Nekola, J.C., G.M. Barker, R.A.D. Cameron & B.M. Pokryszko. In press. Latitudinal and longitudinal variation of body size in land snail populations and communities. In: F. Smith & K. Lyons (eds), Global Patterns of Body Size. University of Chicago Press.
Burger, J.R., J.H. Brown, C.D. Allen,, W.R. Burnside, A.D. Davidson, T.S. Fristoe, M.J. Hamilton, N. Mercado-Silva, J.C. Nekola, J.G. Okie & W. Zuo. 2012. The Macroecology of Sustainability. PLoS Biology. 10:e1001345.
Horsák, M., M. Hájek, D. Spitale, P. Hájková, D. Díte & J.C. Nekola. 2012. The age of island-like habitats impacts habitat specialist species richness. Ecology. 93:1106-1114.
Nekola, J.C. 2012. The impact of utility corridors on terrestrial gastropod biodiversity. Biodiversity and Conservation. 21:781-795.
Brown, J.H., W.R. Burnside, A.D. Davidson, J.P. DeLong, W.C. Dunn, M.J. Hamilton, J.C. Nekola, J.G. Okie, N. Mercado-Silva, W.H. Woodruff & W. Zuo. 2011. Energetic Limits to Economic Growth. Bioscience. 61:19-26.
McGill, B. & J.C. Nekola. 2010. Mechanisms in macroecology: AWOL or purloined letter? Towards a pragmatic view of mechanism. Oikos. 119:591-603.
Nekola, J.C. 2010. Acidophilic terrestrial gastropod communities of North America. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 76:144-156.
Nekola, J.C. & B.F. Coles. 2010. Pupillid land snails of eastern North America. American Malacological Bulletin. 28:29-57.
Nekola, J.C., B.F. Coles & U. Bergthorsson. 2009. Evolutionary pattern and process in the Vertigo gouldii (Mollusca: Pulmonata, Pupillidae) group of minute North American land snails. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 53:1010-1024.
Nekola, J.C., A.L. Šizling, A.G. Boyer & D.
Storch. 2008. Artifactions in
the log-transformation of species abundance distributions. Folia Geobotanica.43:259-268.
McClain, C. & J.C. Nekola. 2008.
The role of local-scale on terrestrial and deep-sea Gastropod body size
distributions across multiple scales. Evolutionary Ecology Research. 10:129-146.
Schlicht, D.W., J.C. Downey & J.C. Nekola. 2007.
The Butterflies of Iowa. University of Iowa Press.
Nekola,
J.C. and J.H. Brown. 2007. The wealth of species: ecological communities,
complex systems, and the legacy of Frank Preston. Ecology Letters. 10:188-196.
Coles, B.F. and J.C. Nekola.
2007. Vertigo malleata,
a new extreme calcifuge land snail from the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains of
the U.S.A. (Gastropoda, Vertiginidae). The
Nautilus. 121:17-28.
Schlicht, D.W., J.C. Downey and J.C. Nekola. 2007. The
Butterflies of Iowa. University of Iowa Press.
Nekola, J.C.
2005. Latitudinal richness,
evenness, and shell size gradients in eastern North American land snail
communities. Records of the Western Australian Museum. Supplement 68:39-51.
Nekola, J.C. 2004.
Vascular plant composition gradients within and between Iowa fens. Journal of Vegetation Science. 15:771-780.
Nekola, J.C.
2003. Large-scale terrestrial
gastropod community composition patterns in the Great Lakes region of North
America. Diversity and
Distribution. 9:55-71.
McMillan, M., J.C. Nekola, and D.W. Larson. 2003.
Impact of recreational rock climbing on land snail communities of the
Niagara Escarpment, southern Ontario, Canada.
Conservation Biology.
17:616-621.
Nekola, J.C.
2002. Effects of fire management
on the richness and abundance of central North American grassland land snail
faunas. Animal Biodiversity and
Conservation. 25:53-66.
Nekola, J.C. and M. Barthel.
2002. Morphometric analysis of
the genus Carychium in the Great Lakes region of North America. Journal of Conchology. 37(5):515-531.
Nekola, J.C. and C.E. Kraft.
2002. Spatial constraint of
peatland butterfly occurrences within a heterogeneous landscape. Oecologia. 130:62-71.
Nekola, J.C. and P.S. White.
2002. Conservation, the two
pillars of ecological explanation, and the paradigm of distance. Natural Areas Journal. 22:305-310.
Nekola, J.C. and B.F. Coles.
2001. Systematics and ecology of Gastrocopta
(Gastrocopta) rogersensis (Gastropoda: Pupillidae), a new species from the
midwest of the United States of America.
The Nautilus. 115:105-114.
Bossenbroek, J.M., C.E. Kraft and J.C. Nekola. 2001.
Prediction of long-distance dispersal using gravity models: Zebra Mussel invasion of inland lakes. Ecological Applications. 11:1178-1788.
Nekola, J.C.
1999. Paleorefugia and
neorefugia: the influence of
colonization history on community pattern and process. Ecology.
80: 2459-2473.
Nekola, J.C. and T.A. Smith.
1999. Terrestrial gastropod
richness patterns in Wisconsin carbonate cliff communities. Malacologia. 41:253-269.
Nekola, J.C. and P.S. White.
1999. Distance decay of
similarity in biogeography and ecology. Journal
of Biogeography. 26:867-878.
Larson, D.W., U. Mattes-Sears, J.A. Gerrath, J.M. Gerrath,
J.C. Nekola, G.L. Walker, S. Porembski, A. Charlton and N.W.K. Larson. 1999.
Ancient stunted forests on cliffs.
Nature. 398:382-383.
Smith, V.H., G.D. Tilman and J.C. Nekola. 1999.
Eutrophication impacts of excess nutrient inputs on fresh water, marine,
and terrestrial ecosystems. Environmental
Pollution. 100: 179-196.
Nekola, J.C.
1998. Butterfly (Lepidoptera: Lycaeniidae, Nymphalidae, and Satyridae) faunas of three peatland habitat types in the
Lake Superior drainage basin of Wisconsin.
Great Lakes Entomologist. 31:27-37.
Nekola, J.C. and D.W. Schlicht. 1997.
Ecology of Botrychium campestre on northeastern Iowa glades. The Prairie Naturalist. 28:77-89.
Nekola, J.C.
1994. Environment and vascular
flora of northeastern Iowa fen communities.
Rhodora. 96:121-169.
White, P.S. and J.C. Nekola.
1992. Biological diversity in an
ecological context. Pages 10-29 in:
Barker, J.R. and D.T. Tingey (eds), Air pollution and biodiversity. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York.
D. SIGNIFICANT GRANTS RECIEVED
Determinants of species diversity at 14 spatial scales in tropical microsnails from endangered limestone habitats. M. Schilthuizen (NCB Naturalis), R. Etienne (University of Groningen), B. McGill (University of Maine - Orono), J. Nekola (University of New Mexico), J. Vermeulen (NCB Naturalis), T.-S. Liew (Universiti Malaysia Sabah), R. Clements (James Cook University). Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. 2011-2014. €235,000.
Universal Diversity Patterns Across the Sciences. J. Harte (Berkeley), B. McGill (U. Arizona) & D. Storch (Charles U.) co-PIs. Santa Fe Institute. 2009. $12,000.
Genetic analysis of diversity and phylogeny of the Vertigo paradoxa - Vertigo hubrichti group in eastern North America. Brian F. Coles, co-PI. Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. 2009. $5000.
Radiocarbon dating of North American terrestrial gastropod shells. J.S. Pigati and J.A. Rech, co-PIs. National Science Foundation. 2006-2009. $230,297.
Northwestern Minnesota terrestrial gastropod survey. Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. 2000-2001. $19,500.
Collaboration
in Basic Science and Engineering (COBASE) grant from the National Academy of
Sciences for collaborative work with Dr. Vlastmil Ruzicka, Institute of Entomology, Czech
Academy of Sciences. 1998.
$2500.
Rare terrestrial gastropod survey of cliff and fen habitats
in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Michigan Department of
Natural Resources. 1998. $4000.
Butterfly
and skipper inventory of wetlands in the Lake Superior drainage basin of
Wisconsin. Wisconsin Department of
Natural Resources. 1996. $9000
R.J. McElroy Excellence in Education Grant. 1989-1992. $11,000.
E. SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES
i. Volumes Edited
Cameron, R.A.D., J.C. Nekola, P. M. Pokryszko
& F.E. Wells. 2005. Pattern and process
in land mollusc diversity. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement #68.
ii. Workshops Organized
Universal diversity patterns across the sciences. 2010. Center for Theoretical Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
Universal diversity patterns across the sciences. 2009. Santa Fe Institute.
iii. Symposia Organized
Pattern and process in global land
snail biodiversity. World Congress of Malacology, July 11-16,
2004, Perth, Australia (co-organized with R.A.D. Cameron and B.M. Pokryszko).
The role of extent in ecological
pattern and process. ESA Meeting, August 6-10, 2001, Madison,
Wisconsin (coorganized with Helene Wagner).
iv. Examples of Review Service
American Journal of
Botany
(2002, 2003), American Naturalist
(1998, 2010), Biodiversity and Conservation
(2008), Biological Journal of the
Linnaean Society (2007, 2012), Conservation
Biology (2004, 2007), Diversity and
Distributions (2008), Ecography
(2002, 2004, 2007,2009, 2011), Ecological
Applications (2007, 2008, 2010), Ecology
(1998, 2004, 2006, 2008,2009, 2011), Frontiers in
Ecology and the Environment (2002, 2004), Global Ecology and Biogeography (2007, 2010, 2011), Global and Planetary Change (2007), Journal of Animal Ecology (2007), Journal of Applied Ecology (2003), Journal of Biogeography (2008,2009, 2010, 2011), Journal
of Molluscan Studies (2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012), Journal of Vegetation Science (1996, 2001, 2002, 2006), Landscape Ecology (1993, 2002), Oecologia (2008, 2011), Oikos
(2007), Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences of the USA (2008, 2010, 2011)
F. COLLABORATORS AND OTHER AFFILIATIONS
i. Collaborators
G.M. Barker (Landcare Research); M. Barthel (Seed Savers Exchange); U. Bergthorsson (University of New Mexico);
L.E. Burlakova (Stephen Austin State University); J. M. Bossenbroek (University
of Toledo); R.A.D. Cameron (University of Sheffield) ; B.F. Coles (National
Center for Toxicological Research); L.E. Johnson (Universitie Laval); A.Y.
Karatayev (Stephen Austin State University); C.E. Kraft (Cornell University);
D.W. Larson (University of Guelph); M. McMillan (University of Guelph); D.K.
Padilla (State University of New York – Stony Brook); J. Pigati (University of Arizona); B. M. Pokryszko
(Wroclaw University); J. Rech (Miami University); J. Slapcinsky (Florida
Natural History Museum); P.J. Sullivan (Cornell University); F.E. Wells
(Western Australian Museum); Helene Wagner (Swiss Federal Research Institute);
P.S. White (University of North Carolina)
ii. Graduate Students
M. Barthel; J.M. Bossenbroek; A. Opiola
iii. Graduate and post-doctoral advisors
Ph.D.: P.S. White; Post-doctoral: J.H. Brown
iv. Academic/Professional Honors
Marquis Who’s Who in America (2009); UNC-Chapel Hill Distinguished Graduate Alumni (2003); NSF Graduate
Fellow (1987); Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Fellow (1987); Phi Kappa Phi James R.
Slater Fellow (1987); Phi Beta Kappa (1987); Phi Kappa Phi (1986); Intern of the
Year, Botany Department, Smithsonian Institution (1986)
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